Dental Networks and Claim Payers, HSA / HRA Administrators, and Dental Plans Lead a New Wave of Change in Dental Care, Dentisoft Offers Full Spectrum of Dentist / Patient Services to Manage The New Business of Dentistry

Dentisoft Technologies, makers of Dentisoft Office, the leader in online practice management systems for the dental industry, has expanded its product line to include a new service called DentalAppointments.com. Together with Dentisoft’s widely-used search site, DentistDirectory.com, this new web-service provides dental offices and dental claim payers with a unique and proprietary application which spans the dentist-patient relationship. DentalAppointments.com gives each patient their own dental homepage through which the dentist can interact, providing both administrative and clinical tools. These home pages are integrated directly into Dentisoft Office, or they can work effortlessly alongside other practice systems.

Company CEO Jeff Ulanet states, "DentalAppointments.com finally allows claim payers, provider networks, and HSA administrators to provide real-time connectivity between consumers and their dentist". In the coming wave of dental care benefit changes, the company believes payers will need to augment their online capabilities to provide two-way connections for financial and clinical transactions.  "As the practice system is the either the main barrier or the main conduit to any real-time communication or transaction-oriented service which involves the dentist, DentalAppointments.com provides payers with an inexpensive end-to-end solution for connecting dentists and patients, without the dentist having to switch platforms," says Ulanet.  Using DentalAppointments.com, both dentist and consumer connect through a full featured online portal capable of providing both parties with all the tools needed to conduct the business of dentistry. "We believe the practice system has been too narrowly defined in the past. It should do more than just run the practice, it should bridge the dental office to its constituents and facilitate business", says Ulanet.

The company believes that Healthcare Savings Accounts will be one of several major structural changes affecting the funding and administration of dental benefits over the next few years. Dentisoft Technologies intends to offer first-of-its-kind, proprietary capabilities which increase automation and improve these products. "We anticipate consumers will soon be faced with making more self-directed decisions about their dental care needs, and will be conducting more financial and clinical transactions online", says Ulanet. "Through DentalAppointments.com we can facilitate scheduling, messaging, treatment planning, bill payment, and other traditionally paper-intensive processes. We can even support the growing field of tele-dentistry whereby dentists can review treatments with their patients online prior to an actual office visit.  Payers, networks, and administrators can use DentalAppointments.com in a customized way to enhance their products and/or to provide new services which will be attractive to both employers and their dentist customers."

Dentisoft Technologies provides business software and services to dental professionals nationwide. Dentisoft Technologies is a privately-held company headquartered in Bethesda Maryland.

For more information visit www.Dentisoft.com  and www.DentalAppointments.com.